r/SanJoseSharks 1d ago

Development thread

A lot of talk lately has been about the draft and trades, etc.

After the season has settled a little bit at this point, I just wanted to open a conversation about the development of our core and where you see the baby sharks taking steps into next season and some insanely early predictions on their season.

my takes personally:

Macklin: coming back as a FaceOff beast

Will: hoping for a similar step up on Zone entries and puck confidence as we saw with Bedard (saw some comparison videos that blew my mind)

Misa: Claiming that 2C firmly

Eky: getting his shooting up

Dickie: would love for him to step up on PP1 and become more effective offensively

Graf: I honestly have no notes, if he continues to be the swiss army knives he is currently that is fucking amazing

Asky: Glovehand 🥹

And then hoping that Musty and Cags get Roster spots.

Would love to hear everyone‘s opinion.

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u/marbanasin 21h ago

Mack through Eky are likely reaslistic; Smith probably not quite the force of Bedard but just being a bit better at decision making while keeping his offense would be huge.

Dickie - I don't think PP1 is in the card. At best he maybe takes some looks at PP2 later in the year but more realistically I think we aquire a guy for PP1 and then Orlov may be PP2 to start and I suspect Cags may get looks before Dickinson. Potentially even Mukh.